Car Depreciation Calculator

Work out a car value year by year from the purchase price and an annual depreciation rate, with the value today, at a chosen year, and the total lost.

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About car depreciation calculator

Car Depreciation Calculator is a small tool that does one job while you watch. Nothing is saved, so a reload gives you a clean start.

Load the page once and it works offline from then on. Nothing about the tool needs a connection after that first request.

You will find it under Vehicles, alongside 1 other tool for the same sort of job.

Runs in this tab, so nothing you type is uploaded.

How to use it

01
Start it
Every control is on the tool itself. Keyboard shortcuts, where there are any, are listed beside it.
02
Watch it run
It updates in the page as you go. Nothing is sent anywhere, so it keeps working with the network off.
03
Close when done
Nothing is stored between visits. Reloading gives you a clean start rather than picking up where you left off.

Examples

A 25,000 car, 3 years old, looking ahead to year 5
The default 15% a year reducing balance rate
Input
purchasePriceGbp: 25000
ageYears: 3
yearToProject: 5
Output
Current value gbp: 15353.12
Value at chosen year gbp: 11092.63
Total lost by chosen year gbp: 13907.37
Percent lost by chosen year: 55.63

Questions

Does Car Depreciation Calculator work offline?+

Yes. It is JavaScript running in this tab, so once the page has loaded it needs nothing further from the network. Put the machine in flight mode and it carries on. Nothing you do here is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go.

Does it remember anything between visits?+

No. Reload the page and it starts from nothing. There is no account, no saved state and no cookie holding your last session. That is a deliberate trade: it cannot lose your data because it never keeps any.

Is it accurate?+

Timing comes from performance.now(), the high resolution clock the browser provides, rather than from setInterval, which drifts by a few milliseconds every tick and compounds over minutes. What can still shift things is the browser throttling a tab in the background, so leave it visible if the timing matters.

Does it make a sound?+

Where a sound makes sense, it is generated with the Web Audio API rather than loaded as a file, so there is nothing to download and nothing to block. Browsers refuse to start audio until you have interacted with the page, which is why the first press is what switches it on.

Can I use Car Depreciation Calculator on a phone?+

Yes. The controls are sized for touch and the layout collapses to one column on a narrow screen. Bear in mind that a phone locking its screen will suspend the page, and timing stops with it.